Joaquim Barbosa

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New
York, May 13, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the conviction
of two Brazilian journalists on charges of criminal defamation and calls on authorities
to reverse the decisions on appeal.

"The federal government is fully committed to continue
fighting against impunity in cases of killed journalists," Brazilian President
Dilma Rousseff told a CPJ delegation during a meeting on Tuesday in Brasilia,
the country's political capital. Accepting that deadly violence against the
media is a detriment to freedom of the press, Rousseff said her administration
will implement a mechanism to prevent deadly attacks, protect journalists under
imminent risk, and support legislative efforts to federalize crimes against
freedom of expression.

3. Censorship via the courts

By John Otis

Published since 1824 in the Brazilian city Recife in northeastern Pernambuco State, Diario de Pernambuco is South America’s oldest daily newspaper still in circulation. Over its 190 years the paper butted heads with the powerful and was censored by Brazil’s military regimes. But last year Diario de Pernambuco suffered its first case of official censorship since Brazil returned to democracy in 1985.

"Leave me in peace. Wallow
in your garbage," Brazilian Chief Justice Joaquim Barbosa said in a rage when
a reporter with one of the leading national newspapers, O Estado de Sao Paulo, tried
to ask him a question Tuesday at a meeting of the National Council of Justice
in Brasilia, the capital. Stunned by Barbosa's reaction, the journalist
demanded an explanation. "You are a clown," was the response he received from the
president of Brazil's highest court.